"Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory."

“United will break caution to the wind”

“It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.”

“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"”

Source : "Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public" by Helen Thomas, (p. 172), 2006.

“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source : David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

“Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.”

“St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.”

“More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.”